{"id":2155,"date":"2017-10-19T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:02:40","slug":"daily-horror-film-fest-diary-of-a-wimpy-alien-2-predator-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/10\/19\/daily-horror-film-fest-diary-of-a-wimpy-alien-2-predator-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Horror Film Fest: Diary of a Wimpy Alien 2 \u2013 Predator Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast is presenting a different horror film as part of the Daily Horror Film Fest. Creepy, scary, funny, gonzo \u2013 you\u2019ll get every kind of horror this month. Every Thursday, we\u2019ll be presenting a new horror parody from And You Films, and Brendan Jackson Rogers, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/10\/11\/daily-horror-film-fest-bubba-the-redneck-werewolf\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bubba the Redneck Werewolf<\/em><\/a>. Rogers also directed all of the parody shorts, which he wrote with Will Phillips. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, we gave you <em>Diary of a Wimpy Alien<\/em>, an <em>Alien\/Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/em> mashup about an awkward xenomorph doing his best to fit in. This week\u2019s entry is the sequel, <em>Diary of a Wimpy Alien 2 \u2013 Predator Rules<\/em>. \u201cAfter tackling the horrors of school, we wanted to see our wimpy alien take on home life, where his brother, the Predator waits to endlessly torment him,\u201d says Rogers. \u201cAlso it was a great excuse to buy a Predator mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Alien vs Predator battle takes place at a house party, the kind you used to see in <em>Sixteen Candles<\/em> or <em>Weird Science<\/em>, complete with the requisite \u201cclean this mess up before mom and dad get home\u201d montage. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fL7_LYNB7kA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast is presenting a different horror film as part of the Daily Horror&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1422,5],"tags":[1462,965,667,660,641,1461,1488,1489,1487],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","tag-alien","tag-and-you-films","tag-brendan-rogers","tag-bubba-the-redneck-werewolf","tag-daily-horror-film-fest","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid","tag-sixteen-candles","tag-weird-science","tag-will-phillips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DHFF-Diary-of-a-Wimpy-Alien-2-BANNER.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-yL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}